Pomona–Downtown station (also called Pomona station and Pomona Transit Center), is a

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Pomona, California Pomona ( ) is a city in eastern Los Angeles County, California, United States. Pomona is located in the Pomona Valley, between the Inland Empire and the San Gabriel Valley. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city's population was ...

, United States. It is primarily served by Metrolink’s Riverside Line

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service. The station is also served by limited

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long-distance

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service, with the thrice-weekly round trip of the combined /. It is owned and operated by the city of Pomona.

Station design

Two

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lines – the Los Angeles Subdivision and the ex-

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Alhambra Subdivision – run parallel east-west through Pomona station. Amtrak trains use the Alhambra Subdivision, with a single

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on the north side of the single track. Metrolink trains use a side platform on the south side of the two-track Los Angeles Subdivision; a disused platform is also located between the two tracks. The historic station building and a bus plaza are located on the north side of the tracks. A footbridge connects the north and south platforms.

History

The 1940 station was designed by Donald Parkinson in the

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and

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styles. Details include stuccoed walls, an arcade and red clay tile roofs. It once served the main

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line from Los Angeles to New Orleans, and the main Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad line. Currently both lines are now

lines. When

took over intercity rail service in the United States in 1971, it continued serving Pomona with the ''Sunset Limited''. Through cars on the (now the ''Texas Eagle'') began in 1986. The Riverside Line service began in 1993, but service to Pomona–Downtown station did not begin until February 5, 2001. The sbX Purple Line bus rapid transit route between Pomona–Downtown station and

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is expected to open in 2025. During much of the 2010s, the local homeless population began moving around the station and the nearby area. In 2018 an Amtrak engineer was charged with the murder of two homeless men shot and killed on the south platform. In 2020, it was discovered that multiple transients living in the nearby encampments had been regularly breaking into freight trains parked on the adjacent tracks. The station was renovated in 2020 at a cost of $1.3 million to remove the growing homeless encampments on the north platform, in addition to repainting the bridge and removing graffiti from the opposing wall. , Amtrak plans to modify the platform for accessibility later in the 2020s.

Services

The ''Sunset Limited'' and the ''Texas Eagle'' both operate as a single combined train, with the eastbound train stopping at the station on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday at 10:40 p.m., and westbound trains stopping at the station on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 4:00 a.m. The Riverside Line follows the State Route 60 freeway corridor while the ''Sunset Limited'' and the ''Texas Eagle'' separates and follows the Alhambra Subdivision, owned by the

Foothill Transit Foothill Transit is a public transit agency that is government funded by 22 member cities in the San Gabriel and Pomona valleys. It operates a fixed-route bus public transit service in the San Gabriel Valley region of eastern Los Angeles Cou ...

uses the station as a transit center for the area, with extensive connections throughout the San Gabriel Valley. The bus depot is located near the main station building, adjacent to the North platform, across from 1st and Commercial Streets. Lines , , , , , , , provide service to the station. The Silver Streak provides express service to Downtown

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seven days a week. Omnitrans operates route 61 to the Pomona station.

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